The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

当墓地里最有钱的人对我并不重要。对我来说，重要的是夜晚入睡前能为自己达到的成就喝采。

Memory is what we thought we’d forgotten; it’s also what we thought we’d remember.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.